Streptokok foundation

The Streptokok foundation has produced the following film:
Zombi 1, zombi originale (15min, 35mm, black/white, 1969-1995)

Zombi 1 on DVD (collector's item) is sold out.

The film ZOMBI 1 - zombie originale


is available on Vimeo: Watch the film here.
is available on Youtube: Watch the film here.



Synopsis - ZOMBI 1

A roadkill. Two young couples are in a car on a weekend trip. They are spending the weekend in a mansion of professor Logan, a famous archeologist. At the time the couples arrive at the mansion, the professor is in Pittsburg, giving lectures to students about his exciting excavations. Interrupted by a disturbing phonecall, the professor hears about a Tahitian predictian. It tells off the moving a ritual statue: the dead will rise and walk the earth again!

The statue appears to be located in the cellar of the mansion. One of the couples decide to have sex at the graveyard, just outside the peremises. While they get it on, the dead start to come alive. For the girl it's too late. The boy gets away with a mere bite. In the kitchen the niece of the professor has her first successful encouter with a zombi. Being waylayed by zombis, they baricade all doors and windows. But the zombis are overtaking the house and all seems lost, when the professor turns up. The professor decides to end the chaos. He offers his niece to the statue. He won't get away with it.


Zombi 1 has featured at various national and international festivals, such as: Amsterdam (Weekend Of Terror), Utrecht (Nederlands Film Festival), Rotterdam (IFFR), France (Canal+), Spain (Film Festival of Catalonia) en Korea (Puchon Fantastic Film Festival). See also imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231000/combined. Released on a compilation video by CultClassics under the name: "The Nether-Horror Collection".

Foundation


The Streptokok foundation was founded 1994, upon finding an old horror script dating from 1966 by a few students from the arts academie of Rotterdam. Goal of the foundation is the creation audiovisual productions: to make moving illustrations/images, animations, film and other audiovisual expressions.